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PENARTH TRIBUTE MEDAL - by: Moranthorse1
Picked up this non-silver example of the Penarth Peace Celebration medal at Yate Militaria Fair today for small money. Please see Neville C's description on the "Tribute Medals" post on this forum. A...
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ACOCK'S GREEN TYG - by: Neville_C
Does anyone have any information regarding the presentation of these Coalport porcelain tygs / loving cups? Inscribed: "A / MEMENTO / OF THE / SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN / 1899 - 1900. / IN RECOGNITION OF...
View ArticleHelp with research for a book. - by: Hiraeth
Hello All, Firstly, it is incredible to see such a vast forum dedicated to what is often an overlooked but very important war. I appreciate all of you for your time reading this and for the work you...
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4343 William Lammas 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards - by: Dave F
William Lammas was born in the last quarter of 1879 at Whitcombe. The hamlet of Witcombe is located in the county of Somerset, South West England, four miles south of the town of Somerton. In 1881,...
View ArticleTobacco Jar - by: Davidtags
I have recently purchased a wooden carved tea caddy (it could be something else) from Germany. It is carved with 1901-1902 - Pragt Maakt Magt - Boer Camp - Diyatalawa Ceylon. The carving on the front...
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Household Cavalry Museum, London - by: djb
I visited this museum yesterday with high expectations but these were soon tempered when the curator said it was a very small museum. It did contain a range of artefacts from the 18th Century to the...
View ArticleImages from 'On the Transvaal border' published by W H Gill, 1900 - by: djb
Described as 'An album of fifty fully-described war pictures from photographs taken mainly on the Boer side by a resident in the Orange Free State during the campaign' and 'An artistic and unique...
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Viljoen's Drift - by: djb
In the OFS, on the border with the Transvaal, a railway town and nearby crossing point across the Vaal River. 'The little station, at the extreme north of the Orange River Colony, was the terminus of...
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Battle of Talana - by: Frans
Can anyone please tell me if Lancasters were at battle of Talana.Read somewhere that someone from Lancasters received medal with clasp of Battle of Talana and received comment that that's fake because...
View ArticleFirst Boer War: George Macpherson - by: geoffchew
My family interest in this site is in George Macpherson (1856-1899), who, as I recently discovered, was somehow involved in the Galeka War and First Boer War. His history is rather complicated. He was...
View ArticleFuller - Officer in Army - Great great great grand father I think? - by:...
Dear Forum Sleuths, I am trying to find info on the Fuller (Irish descent)family who moved to Cape Town from Britain during the first Anglo Boer War, and I am hoping some of you may have information to...
View ArticleAlfred Rutherford - by: cybermax
Hello everyone I am researching the history of my great uncle Alfred Rutherford and would appreciate any help. He was a private in the second battalion the rifles, I have discovered that so far. It may...
View ArticleSergeant Samuel Henry Lomas - by: Spree Farm
Hi, I was looking for a little more information on one of my relatives on my mothers side 3415/241062 Samuel Henry Lomas and noticed he didn't appear on your medal roll. He won the DCM for his actions...
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